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DrungoHazewood Hangout Grand Counsel

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He is making 2.4 million dollars or four times the salary of Chris Tillman. As I posted many times he should have been traded/dumped in Spring Training. I'm sure (I hope) we tried to dump him on San Diego instead of Patton.

He's making a tiny fraction of CC Sabathia's salary. He's actually a huge bargain!

A constant reminder of our pathetic drafting/player development, and he's a barely passable LOOGY who can't get out the weakest of RH hitters.

Maybe a reminder of the poor development from the mid-2000s. And of course it's a wild exaggeration that he can't retire even the weakest RH hitters. Pudge Rodriguez, Carlos Beltran, Dexter Fowler, Ian Desmond, JJ Hardy, Desmond Jennings, Chipper Jones, Wil Myers, Alfonso Soriano, Yangervis Solarte, Omar Vizquel, Carlos Quentin, Chase Headley and Dan Uggla are a combined 0-for-30-something off Matusz. But of course that's not as much of the metaphorical punch to the gut you were going for.

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DrungoHazewood Hangout Grand Counsel

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Well, I get that, and I was as angry at Matusz as anyone else when he allowed that HR last night. But DFAing him is not a serious option for a guy who has gotten the job done more often than not, even if he has had a few failures.

If the Orioles weren't so long-sighted (FYI - that's an insult around these parts) they'd make keep/release decisions solely on the last plate appearance.

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He's making a tiny fraction of CC Sabathia's salary. He's actually a huge bargain!

Maybe a reminder of the poor development from the mid-2000s. And of course it's a wild exaggeration that he can't retire even the weakest RH hitters. Pudge Rodriguez, Carlos Beltran, Dexter Fowler, Ian Desmond, JJ Hardy, Desmond Jennings, Chipper Jones, Wil Myers, Alfonso Soriano, Yangervis Solarte, Omar Vizquel, Carlos Quentin, Chase Headley and Dan Uggla are a combined 0-for-30-something off Matusz. But of course that's not as much of the metaphorical punch to the gut you were going for.

Yeah and Billy Rowell once homered off him, which isn't something he would probably ever want to admit. He may be cheap but he was a first round bust of a draft pick. That is beyond dispute.

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Yeah and Billy Rowell once homered off him, which isn't something he would probably ever want to admit. He may be cheap but he was a first round bust of a draft pick. That is beyond dispute.

No, Billy Rowell was a first round bust of a draft pick. If you can accumulate over three years of service time you are not a bust.

How is Tim Beckham, the first pick in the 2008 draft doing? Eight plate appearances so far in the majors. Now that is a bust.

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He may be cheap but he was a first round bust of a draft pick. That is beyond dispute.

It depends how you define a bust, I suppose. There are 8 no. 4 picks prior to Matusz who never made the majors. There are another 14 who accumulated less WAR in their careers than Matusz did. So, there are 22 guys who did better (including many who did much better), and 22 guys who did worse.

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It depends how you define a bust, I suppose. There are 8 no. 4 picks prior to Matusz who never made the majors. There are another 14 who accumulated less WAR in their careers than Matusz did. So, there are 22 guys who did better (including many who did much better), and 2 guys who did worse.

bust 1 (bst)

n.

1. A sculpture representing a person's head, shoulders, and upper chest.

2. A woman's bosom.

3. The human chest.

[French buste, from Italian busto, possibly from Latin bustum, sepulchral monument.]

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Josh Hamilton is 0-for-12 with a walk and eight strikeouts against Orioles left-hander Brian Matusz after fanning last night.

Matusz has held four active left-handed hitters to an average below .100 in his career (minimum 10 at-bats): Hamilton, Carl Crawford (.000, 0-10), Colby Rasmus (.083, 1-12) and David Ortiz (.087, 2-23).

http://www.masnsports.com/school-of-roch/2014/07/a-few-orioles-notes-and-angels-lineup.html

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